Soluna, the name Catchword developed for the first blockchain infrastructure firm to supply all its own renewable energy, has been shortlisted for Best Naming Strategy by the prestigious Transform Awards - North America. Catchword worked closely with Soluna, which launched...

Congratulations to Cofense (formerly PhishMe) on a successful acquisition and rebrand! Founded in 2011 as PhishMe, this rising star in cybersecurity was acquired jointly by BlackRock and Pamplona Capital Management in a deal that valued the firm at $400m. In...

The Bay Area is undeniably the wild west of new tech. And if Uber and Lyft thought this town ain’t big enough for the both of them, well, they’ve got another thing coming; there’s a new horse in town. The next means...

A lot of shuffling has taken place with Yahoo recently. In February of this year, the terms were finalized in a deal by which Yahoo would be bought over by Verizon. A lot of Yahoo’s value comes from the fact...

In advance of their IPO, Snapchat is lopping off the "chat" part of their name. Among certain circles, this happened a while ago. For years, teens could be found sitting on the floor of the mall chained to an outlet declaiming,...

Last time in our survey of chatbot names from MobileBeat 2016, we talked about several noteworthy bot-less entrants. Today we’ll review a few of the bot-iful, including the surprise winner of the first-ever International Botathon. Botender: This San Francisco company’s offering also received...

[vc_column_text]We had so much fun walking through a few notable name styles from South by Southwest Interactive 2016, that we’re back for more! Company and product names can be grouped into several general styles, including simple metaphor, invented spelling, and custom capitalization, which...

‘Tis the season for Google names. Only a few months ago, Google announced that it would be reorganizing under its new holding company, Alphabet. This week, Google Life Sciences, the tech behemoth’s new foray into the biomedical field, announced that...

The Age of Virtual Reality is dawning. First there was the Oculus Rift—the forerunner, the one and only. But now, faster than you can say Jack Robinson, the competitors have arrived: the Microsoft Hololens, the Sony Project Morpheus, the recondite...